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Quoting quotes?
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- Subject: Quoting quotes?
- From: Danny Vint <dvint at slip dot net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:40:04 -0700
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Suppose I want to use the following string:
"Dean. Well, let's see, we have on the bags, Who's on first, What's on
second, I Don't Know is on third ... "
and I need to use it something like this:
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after('Dean. Well, let's see, we have on
the bags, Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third ... ',
'bags')"/>
Do you see the problem?
The select attribute uses the " " to contain the attribute value.
then the string-after() function uses the ' ' for the two string value
parameters
but my content string has a bunch of ' in the text!
So I fix this by:
Now I know that I can change the "" in the select to ' '
and the ' ' in the substring-after() to " "
Ok so that fixes this problem, but what happens if I wanted the string to
contain the "" around the
string like it was a real quotation? Now the swapping of '' for " " doesn't
work and using " and/or ' doesn't hide these characters from the
parser - they ar converted to '' an d" just like I had typed the character.
In UNIX you would use a \" or \' to quote a quote, what is the equivalent
function here?
..dan
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